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[Zrk2]

I have a fort with about 200 dwarfs in 40d and I want to learn how to use power. I have everything totally under control (Elves dealt with, 19 champions, Kings rooms almost done etc etc) and want to build an awesome mega-project. I have a clear glass tomb I am going to surround with magma under construction as well.

What I am saying is the fort is essentially done and all that is left is to build something truly awesome.

Also I have never used power before so now is the perfect time to learn how. If you have any ideas or advice for building them tell me.

[MagmaMcFry]

Build a goblinite maker that uses water to wash all your goblins into a shallow(!) pit and uses magma to incinerate the bodies and extract the goblinite.
Automatically.

[Zrk2]

This is exactly the brilliance that brought me to this forum for help!

C'mon people, you know you want to give me ideas!

[MagmaMcFry]

Is my idea not good enough or do you want to do many things at once?

Here's another one: Make a McMoses effect walkway that can switch between water and magma.

Or make a GCS web trap that triggers on FB arrival (!) and reloads semiautomatically (as in: with multiple charges).

Or build a giant mechanism that uses a vertical door grid on the outside walls of your outdoor fort to display various sidescrolling rude messages to goblins and/or elves in language_DWARF.

When I start thinking, I think hard. I just invented all these things while writing and have truly great ideas on how to implement all of them. I think I should go make them myself.

[Zrk2]

I meant I wanted as many different ideas as possible to choose from. Also, 40d there are no FBs and I have no GCS, even in my chasm.

[MagmaMcFry]

40d

Oops.

Well, I have some more: Construct an automatically repeating magma piston, make a magma fountain, make a goblin pit that drops 'em one at a time, or make a goblin-powered mist-generating goblin almost-drowning-trap under the main hallway.

I have a lot of ideas, you know...

[Sutremaine]

Make a double-bridge entrance where each bridge automatically retracts and extends in turn so that enemies always have a path to the fortress before they fall down. Have numerous bridges underneath so that you can set the entrance to delay, immobilise, splatter, or incinerate.

[Zrk2]

Make a double-bridge entrance where each bridge automatically retracts and extends in turn so that enemies always have a path to the fortress before they fall down. Have numerous bridges underneath so that you can set the entrance to delay, immobilise, splatter, or incinerate.

I love bay12.

I was working on an isolator for my entrance, then I could use the power I create to pull all those things off.